{"id":481287,"date":"2025-11-25T15:49:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=481287"},"modified":"2025-11-26T02:20:53","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T02:20:53","slug":"cristiano-ronaldo-able-to-play-at-world-cup-despite-red-card-against-republic-of-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=481287","title":{"rendered":"Cristiano Ronaldo able to play at World Cup despite red card against Republic of Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1p6hj73\/cristiano_ronaldo_able_to_play_at_world_cup\/\"> <img src=\"https:\/\/external-preview.redd.it\/DufQXyakcZzhbamazxcHs8LUZeSdYygvKlnrrSDNmYo.jpeg?width=640&amp;crop=smart&amp;auto=webp&amp;s=5b651f29cb9b38ef419db77c47176c4c933f50ab\" alt=\"Cristiano Ronaldo able to play at World Cup despite red card against Republic of Ireland\" title=\"Cristiano Ronaldo able to play at World Cup despite red card against Republic of Ireland\" \/> <\/a> <\/td>\n<td> <!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p><strong>Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to play for Portugal in their opening game at next summer&#039;s World Cup finals despite his red card against the Republic of Ireland.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo, 40, was sent off for an elbow to Dara O&#039;Shea&#039;s back during Portugal&#039;s 2-0 qualifying defeat earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Violent conduct normally carries a three-match ban but Ronaldo has had the second and third matches suspended for a year.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport understands that the fact it was his first red card in 226 international appearances was taken into account.<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo sat out the match against Armenia on 16 November so will not miss any games in the United States next summer.<\/p>\n<p>A Fifa statement said: &quot;If Cristiano Ronaldo commits another infringement of a similar nature and gravity during the probationary period, the suspension set out in the disciplinary decision shall be deemed automatically revoked and the remaining two matches must be served immediately.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Ronaldo scored five goals in qualifying as Portugal won Group F to reach their seventh straight World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>The 48 teams will find out which group they are in at a draw shown live on the BBC on Friday, 5 December.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --> &#032; submitted by &#032; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/XF372\"> \/u\/XF372 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c30jp9q4jp6o\">[link]<\/a><\/span> &#032; <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/sports\/comments\/1p6hj73\/cristiano_ronaldo_able_to_play_at_world_cup\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span> <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Cristiano Ronaldo will be able to play for Portugal in their opening game at next summer&#039;s World Cup finals despite his red card against the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=481287\" title=\"Cristiano Ronaldo able to play at World Cup despite red card against Republic of Ireland\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":481289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481290,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481287\/revisions\/481290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/481289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}